Earlier it was reported that terrorists attacked the child as she slept

Palestinian killed in West Bank 13-year-old Ariel Jaffa was a citizen of the United States.

This at a daily briefing, said US State Department Spokesman John Kirby.

"We can confirm that Ariel Jaffa was a citizen of the United States," - said Kirby. He said that out of respect for private family life the girl he can not talk about the details of this incredible crime.

Kirby expressed his condolences to the family and friends of girls. He also wished recovery to the two persons who survived the Israeli attack in Netanya . "As we have repeatedly said there is no justification for terrorism," - said Kirby.

Recall at Kirjatharba on the West Bank fatally shot a Palestinian stabbed a sleeping 13-year-old girl . About nine o'clock in the morning 17-year-old resident of the Arab village of Bath-Naim, Mohammad Traera, moved over the fence settlement Kyryat Arba and sneaked into one of the houses. Terrorist repeatedly hit her sleeping Halel Jaffa Ariel knife. Members of a local wife arrived at the scene after the alarm signal received. The terrorist also wounded in the neck of one of them, when he was shot. The wounded girl died in hospital an hour after the Jerusalem attack.